{"id":412766,"date":"2026-02-07T10:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T10:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/412766\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T10:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T10:39:08","slug":"artist-charmaine-watkiss-to-work-with-coventry-university-on-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/412766\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Charmaine Watkiss to work with Coventry University on sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am really looking forward to experimenting with\u202fmaterials and\u202fbenefiting from the university&#8217;s expertise\u202fto\u202f realise\u202fmy ideas for the work,&#8221; Watkiss added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The artist is particularly interested in healing traditions and her compositions of women use her own likeness as a way of enacting what she calls &#8220;memory stories&#8221;, Walsall Council said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Watkiss will benefit from the university&#8217;s departments, which include ceramics, clay, fashion, 3D printing and photography. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Sam Vale, the university&#8217;s curriculum lead for creative practice, said it was &#8220;an exceptional opportunity&#8221; for staff and students to collaborate closely with the Walsall gallery and with &#8220;such an innovative and exciting artist as Charmaine&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vale added by being involved from early development through to production and exhibition, students would gain &#8220;invaluable insight&#8221; into contemporary approaches to making work, helping prepare them for future careers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I am really looking forward to experimenting with\u202fmaterials and\u202fbenefiting from the university&#8217;s expertise\u202fto\u202f realise\u202fmy ideas for the work,&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-412766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}